ABIGAIL WILLIAMS KICK OFF SUMMER TOUR FULL LENGTH DEBUT ALBUM NEARLY COMPLETE

Abigail Williams are set to participate on this summer's highly anticipated, Revolver Magazine-sponsored, Thrash And Burn Tour. Kicking off July 29 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the festival tour also featuring Darkest Hour, Parkway Drive, Misery Signals, Winds of Plague, Arsis, and others, will find the band performing selections from their forthcoming full-length debut, titled In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns.

Kerrang! said of the band's 2007 Legend (ep), "Abigail Williams have taken fresh-faced metal down the left hand path... the result is obscenely exciting." Blabbermouth adds, ""Legend lays a firm foundation for greatness to come." With over 15,000 units sold of Legend and 1.5 million hits to their popular MySpace page, all eyes and ears are awaiting the autumn release of In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns. The James Murphy-produced album features guest performance by Trym Torson (Emperor/Zyklon) and has been an intense working project for all of 2008. The album is set to contain nine new songs from the band currently featuring core vocalist Sorceron and keyboardist Ellyllon, with Plaguehammer (bass), Matt Brown (guitar), Bjornthor (guitar) and Samus (drums).

Abigail Williams defy classification by taking the groove and melody of Gothenburg-styled death metal, face-smashing breakdowns of the hardcore scene and topping it with the bombastic and epic-flavored frostbite of black metal's evilest hordes. The result is a multi-faceted and unforgettable hybrid that has had genre aficionados taking keen and immediate interest in the band since their inception. The band have toured the US and Europe several times in the last 18 months and were hand-picked to open for Emperor at their sold-out performance in Los Angeles (House of Blues) in July of 2006.

Confirmed Thrash and Burn dates featuring Abigail Williams are noted below. The band will immediately fly to England to join the European Summer Slaughter tour kicking off August 29 in Liverpool (running through September 8).

Jul 29 – Sunshine Theater, Albuquerque NM
Jul 30 – Diamond Ballroom, Oklahoma City OK
Jul 31 – Beaumont Club, Kansas City MO
Aug 01 – Attic Club, Dayton OH
Aug 02 – Birch Run Expo Center, Birch Run MI
Aug 03 – Robot Mosh Fest, Milwaukee MI
Aug 04 – Pearl Room, Mokena IL
Aug 05 – Headliners Music Hall, Louisville KY
Aug 06 – Peabody's Down Under, Cleveland OH
Aug 07 – Penny Arcade, Rochester NY
Aug 08 – Northern Lights, Clifton Park NY
Aug 09 – Webster Theatre, Hartford CT
Aug 10 – Crocodile Rock, Allentown PA
Aug 11 – Irving Plaza, New York NY
Aug 12 – Huntington Music Hall (Monkey Bar), Huntington WV
Aug 14 – Crazy Donkey, Farmingdale NY
Aug 15 – Palladium, Worcester MA
Aug 16 – Sonar, Baltimore MD
Aug 17 – Norva, Norfolk VA
Aug 18 – Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh NC
Aug 19 – Masquerade, Atlanta GA
Aug 20 – State Theatre, St. Petersburg FL
Aug 22 – White Rabbit, San Antonio TX
Aug 23 – Java Jazz, Houston TX
Aug 24 – House of Blues, Dallas TX
Aug 25 – Club 101, El Paso TX
Aug 26 – Marquee Theatre, Tempe AZ
Aug 27 – House of Blues, W. Hollywood CA